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crossroadsguy··on GPT-6 Astra
> Canceling my Anthropic Max sub when this ships.

At this point, it reads like people are cancelling old ones and getting new subscriptions every two to three days, whenever a new ,model drops, and quite possibly by the end of the week they are back to the old provider while still having active subscriptions with at least two to three others. Interesting times.

crossroadsguy··on .name Termination
> MagicMoonlight was [dead]ed for not knowing what "dot org scam" refers to.

This is a very hn thing (shadow-banned accounts should not be able to comment though and should be treated differently than "dead" because I could see the comment). I was accused by a fellow hn'er just a few days back I was performing ignorance because I didn't know something very US specific legal term and had asked in a sub thread. Another person said I could just google that, or ask an AI.

Coming back to the scam - it's bizarre to think ICANN could begin to do that! TLDs are such a basic aspect of online identity today and just to think that an outrage, i.e an overwhelming response, caused the proposal to be scrapped, is unsettling.

I am not sure but we should rather move to something else or remove this power from such for profit companies or non-profits that often behave worse than for profits, or at the behest of them.

crossroadsguy··on Creating Backup Storage Sucks
> I went down from a whopping 8TB to 300Gb doing that and it's still shrinking monthly.

Just hours ago on another post I had commented

> discard/reject/delete: ≈400GB → 25GB → 3GB (< a decade ago; I remember) (I was shocked to see how little of that really mattered).

This is one of the most important aspect of managing your personal data in any meaningfully sane and sustainable (!) way.

Then being deliberate about one's digital footprint.

crossroadsguy··on Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage
Exactly. Though when something similar happened to me, and I was able to salvage most of it, the next thing I did was:

discard/reject/delete: ≈400GB → 25GB → 3GB (< a decade ago; I remember) (I was shocked to see how little of that really mattered).

and since then I have been backing up starting from that 3GB set which, more than a decade later, is obviously more now, but the learning was don't let amount of data control/tame you, it should be the other way round. So I can just use multiple PAYG backup destinations without worrying about insane costs.

The amount of photos and videos I took also went astronomically down after that. I realised what I was missing - I had lost the data and for the most part I didn't have many of those scenes/moments to begin with. Because I was busy taking those digital photos and videos.

crossroadsguy··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
I've tried controlling it via fine-tuning Claude.md and in-session messages/instructions. It always results in failure and then "Yes, guardrails are already there. I still failed" and it feels like "I am like this. Deal with it". I've even tried languages that avoids negatives e.g. "Don't.." "never.." etc. Nope. Just doesn't work.
crossroadsguy··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
If someone has a way to tame GLM into doing this then please…

As a workhorse, GLM is so good, but goodness, its prose, wherever needed, makes me feel like going to a park and kicking all the benches there endlessly. And it doesn't change!

crossroadsguy··on My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
> <a href="https://omlx.app">oMLX</a>

Is that supposed to be hallucination? The human or other kind. Feels like a made up URL. It's .ai, isn't it?

crossroadsguy··on Fastpotify
I don't think it's needed or a fair ask. Even though project clearly shows one of the contributors as Claude. There are excellent AI assisted software out there and shite software "crafted" by bare fist and knuckles violently banging a mechanical keyboard in a glorious hacker dungeon.

When I commit I either mark it as my own commit if I've read through every line of that commit at least once (not skimmed), pushed back, changed, etc, or put as "ai@<a word I use>" if it was mostly "fine, do it…" or the "whatever… " phase. I never let AI write a single word of documentation or comment. And I made sure Claude removed its attribution the first time I started using it. Besides I was using GLM 5.2 at that time so Claude was not a fit anyway. I don't think they should have that default behaviour.

crossroadsguy··on Fastpotify
Just like that comment you typed is keyboarded or keypadded. Or did you voice it?
crossroadsguy··on Fastpotify
Because as much as the app sucks the everything else is better than everyone else's music app, at least here in India where we have Apple Music as well. Recommendation, organisation, playlist - it feels like Apple Music is doing all that for a different species altogether. Now I already have said how bloated Spotify iOS app is and I still take it any day over Apple Music's native app. Hell, there are flows in Apple Music that has never gonna past a click at certain page whenever I've tried (that's quite a few in times in last few years). Esp. flows around which they try to play with iCloud and social aspects. Hell, I can't even decide what not to see on my Apple Music home screen. Sometimes I've to do few sipes to reach what I am looking for. Even with all the bloat Spotify never tires me like that.
crossroadsguy··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
Like it's common to forget, or not mention more trivial aspects like land something something, and that a whole lot were literally wealthy men from just one place, merchants (smugglers someone said?), some people owed someone else? nope?, slavery etc? Don't think so :D
crossroadsguy··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
This thread is the living, breathing American dream.
crossroadsguy··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
Now let's talk about a doctor-thief, or a thief-doctor - your preference. Let's not get into the reasons/circumstances, because I'm pretty sure those won't be on the cards when a gun is drawn, or two.
crossroadsguy··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
> I would have had no reasonable means to replace my tools, and barely reasonable means to replace the damage a catalytic converter theft would have caused me.

But if you had died in the interaction, and let's say the thief at that point even left the goods and decided to leave, that would have totally been a win outcome, because the property with which you provided your livelihood was saved… wait…

> Only someone who has never lived a hard day

Yeah right…

I never understood why people forget this:

- Life is more valuable esp. if "you + property" combo is the livelihood. Okay, let's make this simpler. Probability of tools replacement ≠ 0; definitely >0. Possibility of you being replaced after death =0. Yup, it's not >0 yet, folks.

- When you are going for a life-losing/taking-possibility escalation level, maybe don't forget it's a two-way street..

crossroadsguy··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
> don't invade someone's home

And what constitutes "invading" someone's home? You know what, don't answer that.

crossroadsguy··on 9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight
I think I could have done that. Just like you and I could have received this news on Twitter or on Google News. Maybe Reddit? Or we could have asked an AI chat/agent, "Give me news for today." But here we are, aren't we?

And I learned an interesting tidbit from one of the commenters here.

crossroadsguy··on Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio
> Realistic minimum RAM 16GB

When someone says stuff like this what does it mean? A Mac/computer with this much RAM capacity/marker (how would this even be useful in this case?) or 16 or ≈16GB free RAM?

Because RAM usage at least on my Mac is another beast altogether and seems nothing will bring down the RAM usage other tham <rm -rf>ing the / (that is if I can and something survives to notice the miracle)

crossroadsguy··on 9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight
(Not American)

What does 9th circuit or some circuit court mean?

It some name of a specific court, just not the place name?

Or is it special kind of court and “9” is some sort of level? Importance or hierarchy related? Escalation level? (Assuming your SC eventually is also at the top like in India)

crossroadsguy··on Small Models Have Arrived
It gives astronomically optimistic results for my 16GB M1 Pro :)

By the way own exploration sort of led me to qwen3.5:9b for the best case scenario balanced model considering almost 10-11GB of RAM is almost always gone anyway. Even with aggressive app quitting.

crossroadsguy··on GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
How am I supposed to navigate around there? For example the pricing page is empty or is that how it was supposed to look? On models and providers pages there are lists but no way to filter or get any kind of meaningful info. Or is this a WIP/POC?
crossroadsguy··on GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
Its reasoning leaves a lot to be desired :(

Though I appreciate how good it is at "solid" grunt work and at that price (in fact I am paying the grandfathered subscription price; mostly).

I am planning to let go for my Claude AI subscription which I now use only for "planning" and maybe use that via Open Router as PAYG (at to try how it ends up). But god glm is bad at "talking" and "responding" anything prose. Not only quality but it's almost impossible to tune it and make it let go of its habits and biases and enthusiasms which often result in too many too and fro.

So I sometimes wonder at what point that starts becoming the cost and mental hassle. Maybe it's not there for me yet.

crossroadsguy··on Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
I just looked up and my country approved its first dengue vaccine last month. Maybe I should enquire about it :D
crossroadsguy··on Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
If you mean the specific strain then I do not know which one it was (I ). But yeah if I get bitten by another dengue strain then the immunity works against me. So (afaik; roughly speaking) I have ≈100% immunity against my strain and sort of negative immunity against the rest three.

I just looked up my test report from years ago and it just says NS1 rapid antigen test and that one doesn't find which of DENV-1(-2, -3, -4) it was.

crossroadsguy··on Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
Do you use it on a desktop? Mac by any chance? What's your setup?

I've been looking to find a simple and fast dictation app for English but almost everything I've tried (from Handy to many apps, eg some with Whisper in their names, after the model I assume) just don't work well. Apple's offering is worse than those though. I even tried with local enhancement models.

crossroadsguy··on Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
I had dengue once. Fever was something else! Since then I've been scared shitless that there are 3 other major variants remaining and if the next time is one of those 3 I am most probably cooked. There are no vaccines here yet either.
crossroadsguy··on Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity
> I've heard stories of residents being scalded for putting flowers on their balcony

In medieval times, not after, I hope.

crossroadsguy··on GLM-5.3-Flash
For me it's been this: Opus (at least in my experience) is unbeatable at "planning the work". That includes a lot of things, including getting arch. sorted, a chassis/skeleton done. Filling that up and doing the actual "coding," though, I've noticed no real difference between the Claude model and GLM. So it'll be interesting to see how this flash model compares cost-wise to what I'm currently using, which is GLM 5.3, for coding. Looks like it will be reduced even further and might be great if it's faster (and better?) than 5.3 in my real world/personal experience.

(I'm someone who doesn't really care about delays of a few seconds, or even more than few seconds. But if I am trying to notice then sure Claude is definitely faster as well).

crossroadsguy··on GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?
> > free

> you are the problem

Hey, arccy.

What a pathetic one-liner reply!

(update: since it was being downvoted anyway, removed the explanations part and just left the pissed off longer knee jerk reaction response to another shorter knee jerk reaction)

Coming back to your pathetic quip: what kind of piece of work one has to be to reply in this somewhat apple-fanboi-esque way (where someone says "how to fix X problem in Y" and pat comes the reply "why not just buy Y-latest, it's just $349") and what kind of unidimensional world you live in where you believe someone wanting some free and private git hosting is the problem? Ffs.

So again and with all due respect, please shut the fuck up! Because you don't know me, you don't know where I am coming from, you don't know the why, and you don't come across as someone who would ask or even care about knowing.

crossroadsguy··on GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?
But after exploring some options for small but private and personal repos (not foss; not yet at least) I realised I am better off with a free Github private repo. There simply isn't a feasible free alternative for such a use-case without hitting, often a 50MB to say few 100s MB, the limit ASAP. There's gitlab.com, bitbucket (? haven't opened it in ages) but those are not better in any way for use cases like mine.

Are there any?

crossroadsguy··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
I have exactly this. Been trying to setup local models. I either end up with something that’s too big for my mac or too small.
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